Microsoft .NET framework ... to install or not install?

[GnomeCop]

What software uses this ? Does it help in any microsoft software like MS office XP? Outlook?
Should it be installed?

 

[GnomeCop]

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[Kinesis]

OK GnomeCop if you are asking that kind of question about .NET then I think you had best not install it.

.NET to put it simply will not benefit you applications or games, etc in the least, unless you are planning to do some programming. .NET is the new architecture that Microsoft has creating for software development.

This is a condensed and simplistic version.

Hope this helps.

 

[GnomeCop]

Ok it was in the recommended updates section of Windows update, so I thought it may be important. Great I dont have to install it.

 

[ClintM]

As stated, .Net is just an architecture that MS has developed. As of now, no - there's no real need to install it. No software I know of has been created specifically for .Net, but in time I believe there will be such applications, since .Net, by design, is cross-platform.

For now, you can do w/out installing it - but it certainly won't hurt anything if you do.

 

[Smilin]

hehe .net framework hahahehee.

There is no software for it and it's already shown several serious security issues. I'm not against it per se, but I would definately NOT install it until you need it.

 

[ProviaFan]

What all of the above posters have said is correct, for the most part. To put it another way, picture the .NET framework as a bloated and over-glorified version of the Visual Basic runtimes we all had fun installing back in the Win9x days when such things were not included with the OS.

There have been a few things developed with .NET already, but not many. The p2p application OverNet, for one example, uses and requires the .NET framework.